Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-06-09
ton ct the opening Of the college gear
and have given faithful and effective

within the reach OF every student under
the guidance of those competent to
guide and to impart knowledge. The
eonoers-for it WAS a concert-was partio.
ipsted in by eevetal members OF the
college musical class, all OF whom gave
evidence Of efficiency. The programme
Was sxoeilently rendered asd as it ls in
itself an evidence of merit, we give it
entire:
PART r,
Rehr-piano, Nachtliche Runde der
Scharwaohe, Miss Alethea Disbrow.
Molloy-vocsl, The kings Highway,
Mr. Frank O. Smith.
Kohier--piano. The Cuckoo, Master
Maurice Blatt.
Gounod-vocai, Tell me Beautiful
Maiden, Miss Bessie Russell.
Lichner-piano, Schooner Tranm,
Miss Alice Kingsbury.
Ohadwick-vocal, Lullaby op. IA, No
2, Miss Fannie Dawson.
Spindler-Dana-piano, a, Elegie, b
Gallop, Miss Kats Carney.
Lanz-vocsl, Sing Sweet Bird, Miss
Jessie Poore.
PAR II.
Kjerulf--vooai, Last Night. Miss
Lillian Fisher.
Dana-piano, March in u maj. Master
Harold Roberts.
Roecksl-yocal. The Devoted Apple
Miss Nellie Miner.
Bsethoven-piano, Sonata OPP. rs
Miss Minnie Jencks.
King-yosal, Ewes Lament, Mis-
Sarah Knudson.
MISUNDERSTANDING, Jagerlied Gen
amt. Sophia q. Schenck.
Pinscit--Yoosi, Fly Forth o Cent,
Dove, Miss Nstsie Van Ostrand.
Ohopin-Diano, Nocturne No. 10, Miss
Jessie Poore.
Cowen-yocaI, 1t was a d cam, Mis-
Alice Poulton.
TUESDAY EVENING
was devoted to a CONTEST among colleg
students who had entered for the Church
hill and Jeffris prizes, the first for th,
best declarations and the second for th
best essay
The contestants were eight in mum
Der, and were members OF botl
the preparatory and collegiate depart
ments of Yapkton college. During th,
lore part Of the school year they bsgal
studying for THE contest and with suct
good results that the decision Of til,
Judges last evening was rendered only
after considerable deliberation.
The programme will be found beioy
and the readez may imagine that opposit
each name 10 written "6rst price, q
according to the remarks made by tn,
chairman of the aNard committee each
one deserved a prize.
The Gwards were, however, q
follows: To Fl. W. Jamiaon, OF Dover
Dakota, FIRST prize; to Elmer A. Chase
OF stnrgis CITY. Dakota. second prize; t,
George w. Nash, OF Canton. Dakota
third prize.
DR.. Bancroft, chairman Of the awart
committee, in awarding the prizes stated
that he Was wholly inexperienced in tn,
business OF deciding such contests AM
that while the responsibility was rathe
Q delicate n to assume he woul,
shoulder the blame, as he was Boon {,
leave the city. DR.. Bancroft stated tha
the decisions had been made strictly up
on the merits OF the delivery of eaci
speaker and from no ether basis.
The programme OF exercises was a
follows.
Piano solo-Spring song, Mendelssohl
Miss Fannie Dawson.
The Combat. SCOTT. Henry Ruff
Miner, Yankton.
The Crime Against Kansas, SCOTT
George Williston Nash, Canton.
Defense OF Massachusetts,, BurIin
game. Henry Winfield Jamison, Dover
Protection, Clay. Edward Dodge Gray
Lake Henry.
The Diver. Schiller. Elmer Amo
Chase, Sturgis City.
The Chariot Race, Wallace. ALDER
Barnes, Yankton.
The Death OF Benedict Arnold, Lep.
pard, CHARLES Horace Secoombe, spring
field.
The Death OF Lincoln, Beeohcr. GeorR,
Dnrand Wilder, Huron.
Committee on the Churchill prizes
Prot. Oh Taylor, Yankton, Rev. O. F
T. Bancroft, Ph...D. Andover, Mass, MI
Robert Gamble, Yanktoa, Oak.
COMMITTEES on the Jeffris ptize: Hon
A. ]. Edgerton, Mitchell, Rev. q. d
Wizard, Mitchell, Mr.. r. w. Wheelock
Mitchell.
BY consulting the shove programm,
IT will be perceived that the Jeffri
prize, given for the best essay, woult
be awarded the winner upon this coca.
sion. The arrangement for this contes
is rather unique. The contestants eacl
wrote an essay upon ONE of several sub
jects selected by the college faculty ant
signed an assumed name to the pro
duotion. The essays all went to th'
award committee who decided which wa
the best and awarded the prize to tina
name. J Smith, who was no other tina,
student T. 81. Hall, Of Redfsld, wal
awarded first prize last evening. Hi
subject was. "Ihe Apparal nfS p-r,.s: m,